Text Size in a CStatic Control

[David Viggiano]

Does anyone know of a way to get the dialog units for the text in a CStatic control? I'm trying to dynamically resize some controls and what MSDN says to do seems to always return 25-50% too big. Here is what I am trying: CDC *pDC; CSize cStringSize; pDC = m_MyStaticControl.GetWindowDC(); cStringSize = pDC->GetTextExtent ("Some string I want the size of..."); I've also tried DrawText(...) but that returns the same size. Thanks for the help, David

[Tomasz Sowinski]

You need to select the right font into DC first. Default font is larger than the one used by your control. As a little OT note, you should also use CWindowDC or CClientDC instead of GetWindowDC call. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

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[David Viggiano]

Tomasz, Great! Thanks for the help, that did the trick. One more question, how do I figure out what font the CStatic is going to use? I ended creating a different font first (looks better anyway). Thanks again, David

[Tomasz Sowinski]

CWnd::GetFont does the trick. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

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[David Viggiano]

Simple, thanks yet again.